He adjusted his glasses, peering at the menu board. “The ‘Chef’s Delight’ sounds amazing,” he said, his voice a low rumble that vibrated through her. Sarah, the newly appointed head chef at the upscale bistro, felt a jolt. *That’s* her recipe! The "Golden Goddess," her grandmother’s secret chicken pot pie, which she had so carefully guarded. Now, plastered on a high-end menu, it was suddenly a different thing. A blush rose on her cheeks. The man, utterly charming, was studying her, and she suddenly wanted to explain everything, starting with her grandmother’s kitchen, the scent of cinnamon and the love that went into every bite.

Emotion: infatuated

Cluster: Compassion / Love
PC1 (Valence): 1.61 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.53

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion infatuated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 infatuated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the infatuated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the infatuated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.525
😍0.421
🤩0.418
😍0.410
उसे0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
-0.330
a-0.311
-0.307
-0.299